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Outstanding Warrants Lead To Drug Bust For New Brunswick Man

September 10, 2019 Crime News

A 32-year-old New Brunswick man was arrested on a drug charge Aug. 29 on Hamilton Street.

Members of the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force and the Franklin Township Police Department Crime Suppression Unit were conducting a “quality of life” detail in the area when they saw Marcelino Ortiz, of Harvey Street, talking to several people while on a bicycle in a parking lot, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

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